On New Year's Day of 2011, my friend Tyler Simpson of Skeleton Songs released an EP he titled Voltures. A few weeks later, I came across a strange disc in my house with a note attached to it. I read the note with skepticism, not fully understanding what I was reading. After listening to the disc, digesting the note's information for a time, and trying to tease out something I could comprehend and communicate from the incredible thing I had just read, I wrote the following.

This sound is a document received from a potential future. As Earth collapsed and died, an unidentified human opted to spend her final moments listening to Voltures. Sound being a form of energy, this energy persisted with various strengths out into darkness along with the fragments of our planet and the dissipating atmosphere. A creature elsewhere in the galaxy noticed the destruction with some curiosity from its own lonely rock, as the emptiness of space otherwise stared the being in what we could only call its face. This creature felt the woman's plaintive but calm state and, utilizing a tool we haven't quite developed, chose to target and archive the audio with which the woman was occupying herself.

Upon reaching the studious extraterrestrial's device, the signal had been badly warped, in some places dissolved and in others rearranged and duplicated. Knowing the acquisition damaged but thinking we may find it noteworthy as a record of our demise, perhaps even a thing of beauty, the being made great efforts to place it into our hands. And having observed how humans can enjoy giving and receiving gifts, it delivered the recording to a friend of its original creator on a disc I must assume it delicately removed from a nearby chunk of Earth's wreckage.

Source audio is by Skeleton Songs/Tyler Simpson and is available for streaming and download on Soundcloud and via the Skeleton Songs Facebook page. My page is on facebook at /joshualovejoyaudio. Also joshualovejoy(dot)bandcamp(dot)com.

Nerdish Coalition


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Artist/Composer: Skeleton Songs (Mr. Dr. Tyler Simpson), Joshua Lovejoy
Date: 2011-01-19
Keywords: skeleton songs; joshua lovejoy; voltures; ep; remix; reinterpretation; reimagining; noise; electronic; experimental; tacoma; nerdish coalition; post-apocalyptic; music; sound; art; sound art

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